In Review

Vice President for Communications

Elizabeth Stauderman, the chief communications officer at Yale University, has been named vice president for communications, effective August 1.

An experienced leader in external relations, institutional positioning, and issues management, Stauderman has more than 20 years’ experience in higher education, including roles in communications, alumni relations, annual fundraising, and student affairs. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, Stauderman joined Yale’s Office of Public Affairs & Communications in July 2010 as deputy chief communications officer, and was promoted to chief communications officer and special assistant to the president in January 2012.

In that position, she advises Yale’s president and cabinet on strategic communications, counsels and represents the university on crisis issues, and leads a staff of 32 focused on national and international media relations, internal communications, video production and photography, institutional website development, and social media.

She succeeds Bill Murphy, who is retiring from the role that he has held since 2006.

Research Director of the Del Monte Neuromedicine Institute

John Foxe, who currently serves as the director of research for the Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been named the research director of the Del Monte Neuromedicine Institute. A nationally regarded scientist in the field of neurobiology, Foxe was also named the Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Professor in Neurobiology and Anatomy. Both appointments are effective October 1, pending the approval of the University’s Board of Trustees.

As research director of the Del Monte Institute, Foxe will be responsible for bringing together the leaders of departments and centers across the University that focus on the nervous system. He will oversee the creation of a strategic plan that coordinates and expands research and education programs and helps accelerate the translation of scientific discoveries into new treatments.

Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics

Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and a leading scholar of monetary and financial economics, was appointed as the inaugural Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics, effective January 1.

Kocherlakota has served as the president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank for the past six years. Previously, he held professorships at Northwestern University, the University of Iowa, Stanford University, and at the University of Minnesota, where he also served as the chair of the economics department. Kocherlakota has published more than 30 theoretical and empirical articles in academic journals on work that focuses on monetary economics and financial economics. In 2010, Princeton University Press published his book, The New Dynamic Public Finance, and in 2012 he was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.